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Neanderthals were the world's first artists, research reveals

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Recent research has shown that engravings in a cave in La Roche-Cotard (France), which has been sealed for thousands of years, were actually made by Neanderthals. The findings reveal that the Neanderthals were the first humans with an appreciation of art.

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Why Do AI Startups Have High Failure Rates?

Smart Data Collective

AI technology has been one of the most disruptive technological changes of the past couple of years. One forecast reports that the market for AI will be worth over $594 billion by 2032. The growing number of people using AI services such as ChatGPT is a testament to how influential AI has become.

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Falling Walls 2023: How open science and systems thinking can save the planet 

Frontiers

Open access publisher Frontiers and the Frontiers Research Foundation joined this year’s Falling Walls Science Summit held on 7-9 November in Berlin, Germany. The Falling Walls Science Summit is a prominent gathering that unites experts from various scientific disciplines to explore groundbreaking research and foster collaborative solutions for the challenges of our time.

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Glanders, The Rare Infectious Disease That’s Also a Deadly Biological Weapon

Gideon

You may not have heard of glanders. After all, it’s a bacterial infection that rarely infects humans. However, it has a dark history of being used as a biological weapon in war, and could be used again. Without treatment, the infection is 95% fatal and even after receiving antibiotics, the mortality rate is only 50%. Learn more about it’s history, epidemiology, transmission, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatmesymptnt of this infectious disease in our blog: [link].

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From the first bite, our sense of taste helps pace our eating

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When you eagerly dig into a long-awaited dinner, signals from your stomach to your brain keep you from eating so much you'll regret it -- or so it's been thought.

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Using Data Analysis to Improve and Verify the Customer Experience and Bad Reviews

Smart Data Collective

One of the trickiest things for businesses to navigate in the age of social media is the customer complaint. On one hand, companies (especially startups) should take customer concerns into account when considering improvements or design changes to a product.

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Sophisticated swarming: Bacteria support each other across generations

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When bacteria build communities, they cooperate and share nutrients across generations. Researchers have been able to demonstrate this for the first time using a newly developed method. This innovative technique enables the tracking of gene expression during the development of bacterial communities over space and time.

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AI finds formula on how to predict monster waves

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Using 700 years' worth of wave data from more than a billion waves, scientists have used artificial intelligence to find a formula for how to predict the occurrence of these maritime monsters. Long considered myth, freakishly large rogue waves are very real and can split apart ships and even damage oil rigs.

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'Dolomite Problem': 200-year-old geology mystery resolved

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For 200 years, scientists have failed to grow a common mineral in the laboratory under the conditions believed to have formed it naturally. Now, researchers have finally pulled it off, thanks to a new theory developed from atomic simulations. Their success resolves a long-standing geology mystery called the 'Dolomite Problem.' Dolomite -- a key mineral in the Dolomite mountains in Italy, Niagara Falls, the White Cliffs of Dover and Utah's Hoodoos -- is very abundant in rocks older than 100 milli

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'Strange metal' is strangely quiet in noise experiment

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Experiments have provided the first direct evidence that electricity seems to flow through 'strange metals' in an unusual liquid-like form.

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First comprehensive look at effects of 2020-2021 California megafires on terrestrial wildlife habitat

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In 2020 and 2021, California experienced fire activity unlike anything recorded in the modern record. When the smoke cleared, the amount of burned forest totaled ten times more than the annual average going back to the late 1800s. We know that wildlife in western forests evolved with changing habitat and disturbances like wildfire. Each species responds differently, some benefiting from openings, others losing critical habitat.

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AI system self-organizes to develop features of brains of complex organisms

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Scientists have shown that placing physical constraints on an artificially-intelligent system -- in much the same way that the human brain has to develop and operate within physical and biological constraints -- allows it to develop features of the brains of complex organisms in order to solve tasks.

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Our brains are not able to 'rewire' themselves, despite what most scientists believe, new study argues

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Contrary to the commonly-held view, the brain does not have the ability to rewire itself to compensate for the loss of sight, an amputation or stroke, for example, say scientists. The researchers argue that the notion that the brain, in response to injury or deficit, can reorganize itself and repurpose particular regions for new functions, is fundamentally flawed -- despite being commonly cited in scientific textbooks.

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Massive Antarctic ozone hole over past 4 years: What is to blame?

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Despite public perception, the Antarctic ozone hole has been remarkably massive and long-lived over the past four years; researchers believe chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) aren't the only things to blame.

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Particulate pollution from coal associated with double the risk of mortality than PM2.5 from other sources

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Exposure to fine particulate air pollutants from coal-fired power plants (coal PM2.5) is associated with a risk of mortality more than double that of exposure to PM2.5 from other sources, according to a new study. Examining Medicare and emissions data in the U.S. from 1999 to 2020, the researchers also found that 460,000 deaths were attributable to coal PM2.5 during the study period -- most of them occurring between 1999 and 2007, when coal PM2.5 levels were highest.

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'Woman the hunter': Studies aim to correct history

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New research combined both physiological and archaeological evidence to argue that not only did prehistoric women engage in the practice of hunting, but their female anatomy and biology would have made them intrinsically better suited for it.

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Why emotions stirred by music create such powerful memories

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Psychologists used music to manipulate emotions of volunteers and found the dynamics of their emotions molded otherwise neutral experiences into memorable events. The tug of war between integrating memories and separating them helps to form distinct memories, allowing people to understand and find meaning in their experiences, and retain information.

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Data Analytics is Crucial for Website CRO

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Data analytics technology has helped change the future of modern business. The ecommerce sector is among those most affected by advances in analytics. We have previously pointed out that a number of ecommerce sites are using data analytics to optimize their business models.

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Babies as young as four months show signs of self-awareness

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Babies as young as four months old can make sense of how their bodies interact with the space around them, according to new research.

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Dwarf galaxies use 10-million-year quiet period to churn out stars

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If you look at massive galaxies teeming with stars, you might be forgiven in thinking they are star factories, churning out brilliant balls of gas. But actually, less evolved dwarf galaxies have bigger regions of star factories, with higher rates of star formation. Now, University of Michigan researchers have discovered the reason underlying this: These galaxies enjoy a 10-million-year delay in blowing out the gas cluttering up their environments.

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Telescope Array detects second highest-energy cosmic ray ever

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In 1991, an experiment detected the highest-energy cosmic ray ever observed. Later dubbed the Oh-My-God particle, the cosmic ray’s energy shocked astrophysicists. Nothing in our galaxy had the power to produce it, and the particle had more energy than was theoretically possible for cosmic rays traveling to Earth from other galaxies. Simply put, the particle should not exist.

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Hybrid transistors set stage for integration of biology and microelectronics

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Researchers create transistors combining silicon with biological silk, using common microprocessor manufacturing methods. The silk protein can be easily modified with other chemical and biological molecules to change its properties, leading to circuits that respond to biology and the environment.

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Ultra-processed foods and higher risk of mouth, throat and esophagus cancers

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Eating more ultra-processed foods (UPFs) may be associated with a higher risk of developing cancers of upper aerodigestive tract (including the mouth, throat and esophagus), according to a new study. The authors of this international study, which analyzed diet and lifestyle data on 450,111 adults who were followed for approximately 14 years, say obesity associated with the consumption of UPFs may not be the only factor to blame.

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Trilobites rise from the ashes to reveal ancient map

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Ten newly discovered species of trilobites, hidden for 490 million years in a little-studied part of Thailand, could be the missing pieces in an intricate puzzle of ancient world geography.

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NASA's Webb reveals new features in heart of Milky Way

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The latest image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope shows a portion of the dense center of our galaxy in unprecedented detail, including never-before-seen features astronomers have yet to explain. The star-forming region, named Sagittarius C (Sgr C), is about 300 light-years from the Milky Way's central supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*.

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'Teenage galaxies' are unusually hot, glowing with unexpected elements

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Using the James Webb Space Telescope, CECILIA Survey receives first data from galaxies forming two-to-three billion years after the Big Bang. By examining light from these 33 galaxies, researchers discovered their elemental composition and temperature. The ultra-deep spectrum revealed eight distinct elements: Hydrogen, helium, nitrogen, oxygen, silicon, sulfur, argon and nickel.

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'Triple star' discovery could revolutionize understanding of stellar evolution

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A ground-breaking new discovery could transform the way astronomers understand some of the biggest and most common stars in the Universe. Research by PhD student Jonathan Dodd and Professor René Oudmaijer, from the University's School of Physics and Astronomy, points to intriguing new evidence that massive Be stars -- until now mainly thought to exist in double stars -- could in fact be 'triples'.

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Why the vast supergalactic plane is teeming with only one type of galaxy

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Our own Milky Way galaxy is part of a much larger formation, the local Supercluster structure, which contains several massive galaxy clusters and thousands of individual galaxies. Due to its pancake-like shape, which measures almost a billion light years across, it is also referred to as the Supergalactic Plane. Why is the vast supergalactic plane teeming with only one type of galaxies?

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High-power fiber lasers emerge as a pioneering technology

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Optical scientists have created a high-power 'Star Wars' style-laser, boosting their use in defense and for remote sensing applications.

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Massive 2022 eruption reduced ozone layer levels

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The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano changed the chemistry and dynamics of the stratosphere in the year following the eruption, leading to unprecedented losses in the ozone layer of up to 7% over large areas of the Southern Hemisphere.

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Frontiers celebrates first open access publishing agreement in Japan 

Frontiers

Gold open access publisher Frontiers will publish the Journal of Cutaneous Immunology and Allergy (JCIA) under a new agreement signed with the  Japanese Society for Cutaneous Immunology and Allergy (JSCIA). The agreement marks Frontiers’ first publishing partnership in Japan. Credit: Frontiers JCIA publishes high quality peer-reviewed research on a wide range of topics in the field of dermatology.

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